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All work and no play... gives you a birth rate crisis, apparently.

• hunterpayne 6mo ago
  Its urbanization that causes that. COVID had nothing do with it.
  • lotsofpulp 6mo ago
    It’s women’s rights that causes that. Turns out, making and raising a baby more than one or two times is not a preferred option. And zero is preferred a lot of times too.
    • hunterpayne 6mo ago
      That correlation doesn't hold. There are plenty of places with few women's rights and big cities that have a low birth rates.
      • lotsofpulp 6mo ago
        It's not a correlation, it's a conditional statement. If women have the option to choose, then the vast majority choose 0, 1, or 2 kids. This conditional statement is upheld by basically all the total fertility rate trends in the world. I'm seeing the same trends in rural and urban areas. See figure 1: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17441730.2024.2430035#d1e1203 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17441730.2024.2...